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Nigerian Actress, Deborah Oguntoyinbo Arrested For Stealing 20 Women’s Identities To Commit Fraud In Canada

Deborah Oguntoyinbo is facing more than 50 fraud-related charges in Toronto and the surrounding regions. Police say she is a ‘professional’ and ‘prolific’ identity thief.

A CBC News investigation has revealed that Nollywood actress Deborah Oguntoyinbo has allegedly stolen the identities of 20 women which she used to commit a large scale fraud.

The actress who is considered as a “professional fraudster”  is now facing more than 50 fraud-related charges in Toronto as well as nearby York, Peel, and Halton regions, after her arrest.

Police say she is one of the most prolific identity thieves they’ve recently encountered.

They say 26-year-old Deborah Oguntoyinbo, of Toronto, has left a trail of shattered lives and destroyed credit profiles.

Before she was eventually arrested, she tried fleeing a luxury condominium complex in Markham (north of Toronto) and tried renting with money she made through fraudulent means.

Oguntoyinbo reportedly tried renting the condo with the name Natalia Bozic. The real Natalia Bozic who is a self-employed esthetician from Mississauga confirmed that someone destroyed her life by using her personal information to get into her bank account, apply for loans and credit cards, change all her passwords. She also disclosed that $4,000 was stolen from her account.

She said, “It was June 10, and it told me to call the phone number listed. So I called them, and they told me to come to the bank.

“They investigated and put my account on freeze. They told me nobody can put money in and nobody can take money out.

“Someone reset passwords, reset security questions, reset my phone to a new phone number, created a new email address so I don’t get notified my password changed.”

Police services across the Toronto area are still piecing together the extent of Oguntoyinbo’s crimes.

“She definitely would be considered a professional fraudster, knows what she’s doing and [is] quite prolific,” York Regional Police Sgt. Andy Pattenden told CBC News. “She’s really been all over the [Greater Toronto Area].”

It was further gathered that the police in at least four Toronto-area jurisdictions have filed identity theft-related charges against Oguntoyinbo. Court records revealed that Oguntoyinbo is accused of stealing the identities of two people in Peel.

The Halton Police have also accused her of stealing the identities of 11 people, while York Police alleged she stole four identities.

The actress is currently behind bars as the latest round of charges works their way through court systems in the four jurisdictions. Forged drivers’ licenses, social insurance numbers, and passports in the names of other people were seized from the actress who also used stolen cheques to buy a Mercedes Benz and a BMW.

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Oguntoyinbo’s latest arrest came on June 29, when police allege she tried to flee a luxury condominium complex in Markham, north of Toronto, after being suspected of fraud.

York Region Police allege Oguntoyinbo tried to rent the condo using the name Natalia Bozic, and have charged her with using a forged certified cheque and a false identity.

Bozic, 24, a self-employed esthetician from Mississauga, Ont., says that “someone used her personal information to get into her bank account, apply for loans and credit cards, change all her passwords and wreak havoc on her life.”

She says “she first noticed something was amiss when she couldn’t log in to her RBC online banking account this past summer.”

“It was June 10th, and it told me to call the phone number listed. So I called them, and they told me to come into the bank.”

The bank told her $1,200 was stolen from her account.

That was just the beginning.

“They investigated and they put my account on freeze,” she said, and assured her “nobody can put money in and nobody can take money out.”

Yet, two days later someone walked into an RBC branch on Don Mills Rd. in Toronto and passed a teller a fake driver’s licence with Bozic’s name and correct licence number.

Bozic said the RBC teller issued the person a new bank card linked to Bozic’s bank account.

Bozic believes the bank also provided the person her social insurance number.

That’s when the alleged crimes became more brazen and widespread.

Someone “reset passwords, reset security questions, reset my phone to a new phone number, created a new email address so I don’t get notified my banking password changed.”

Twice more, money was drained from Bozic’s account. Some were sent to a bank account in Vancouver. In all, about $4,000 went missing, according to bank records.

This Is What We Know About Deborah Oguntoyinbo

In 2017, Oguntoyinbo was charged with 19 fraud-related offenses. She was sentenced to jail twice, the harshest sentence being 90 days.

She is currently behind bars as the latest round of charges works their way through court systems in the four jurisdictions.

Her only online presence appears to be photos posted on the website starnow.ca, a site used by actors, models, and musicians looking for work.

According to federal bankruptcy records and provincial databases, Oguntoyinbo has no assets or liens registered in her name.

This has all the hallmarks of a professional Nigerian scammer who came to Canada.

CBC News has learned police have a list of aliases they believe Oguntoyinbo has used to allegedly commit crimes.

They include:

Debra Omolade Oguntoyinbo

Deborah Ololade Oguntoyinbo

Kayla Wright

Dzoya Trotman

Jessica Wright

Ashley Bailey

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2020

Week 43: October 19-October 25

19: Trump is beefing with Anthony Fauci, the grandfatherly epidemiologist who has become a media-stay amid coronavirus coverage. As the United States’ leading infectious disease expert, he has become the de-facto voice for public health in America. Fauci drew the president’s ire after he denounced a pro-Trump political ad for misquoting him and using his words out of context to mislead voters into thinking that the president enjoys his support. Trump calls the infectious disease expert “a disaster” on call with campaign staff and reports, and complains: “Every time he goes on television, there’s always a bomb, but there’s a bigger bomb if you fire him”. And, in voting news, the Supreme court deadlocked over a decisions, ultimately enabling Pennsylvania election officials to extend the deadline for mail-in voting, allowing ballots received up to three days after the election to be counted. As mail deliveries lag under the leadership of the Trump loyalist he appointed to head up the postal service, many worry that Republicans are effectively trying to sabotage mail-in-ballots. This is a decision that will come back time and again during Trump’s prolonged ‘stop the steal’ campaign.

An October protest in Lagos, Nigeria - Temilade Adelaja/Reuters

20: Nigerians are calling for the end of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a branch of the national police notorious for brutalizing residents. Their long list of alleged abuses include conducting illegal searches, unlawful detention, brutally beatings, torturing detainees using stress positions, raping women, and committing extralegal executions. They often target young Nigerians with luxury products like exotic cars and iPhones and extort them for money or steal their belongings. Though the country has seen periodic protests agains SARS since 2016, momentum was sparked again in October by a brutal video of police shooting a young motorist before driving off in his vehicle. Police claimed the video is faked and arrest the man who posted it to twitter - which only further incised their opponents. On Tuesday, though, violence escalates as the Nigerian army opens fire on a group of peaceful protesters gathered at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos. At least 12 people are killed - witnesses claim the military blocked ambulances from attending to the wounded or removing the bodies of the dead. DJ Switch, a popular figure in the Nigeria’s local music scene, livestreams the shootings. Her videos counter the government’s denial of the event, and eventually force the military to acknowledge the massacre. By November, she will have fled the country after threats on her life, and will be successfully granted asylum in Canada.

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21: Obama joins the Biden campaign, delivering a blistering rebuke of the sitting President. Pointing to Trump’s fumbled handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Obama says: “Donald Trump isn't suddenly going to protect all of us. He can't even take the basic steps to protect himself.” In Oklahoma, archaeologists searching for graves of the victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre uncover a mass burial containing ten sets of remains. And, in gay news, Pope Francis gives an interview in which he vocalizes support for same-sex civil unions and backs legal protections for homosexual couples. 

22: A Polish tribunal rules that abortion in the case of fetal defects is unconstitutional. When the ban comes into place, terminations will be restricted solely to instances of rape or incest, or where carrying the pregnancy to term will gravely endanger the life of the expectant mother. Poland has been slowly introducing more and more restrictions since the 1990s.  And it’s the night of the second presidential debate. It’s a more subdued and even-keeled event than the previous match-up. Trump’s answer to his plan to combat coronavirus is more self-congratulatory boasting about closing the borders with China and wishful thinking about the not-yet-developed vaccines. He claims the virus will “go away” and argues that the United States is “rounding the turn”. They’re not. Numbers are growing rapidly - and everywhere.

In San Francisco, motorists partake in a drive-in watch party to view the second and final Presidential debate - Jim Wilson/The New York Times

23: The President of Poland becomes the world’s latest leader to test positive for the coronavirus. In the United States a record-setting 85,000 new cases are reported and a study, published in Nature Magazine indicates that over 500,000 people could die of the virus in the United States by March 2021 [February 2021 hindsight says: yep]. The study projects that if just 85% of the population participated in mask-wearing, nearly 100,000 deaths could be prevented [February 2021 hindsight says: they wont]. And the FBI release a sworn affadavit by a member of the right-wing “Boogaloo Bois” militia stating that right-wing extremists infiltrated the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis in June. Posing as Black Lives Matter protesters, 26-year-old Ivan Hunter shot at police, looted the station, and helped set it on fire.

Department of Agriculture workers wear thick protective suits while they dismantle a Giant Asian Hornet nest containing approximately 500 live samples - Elaine Thompson/AP

24: You know what’s back? Murder hornets. Officials near Blaine, Washington announce they have successfully removed a nest of Giant Asian hornets - the first of its kind located in the United States. A handful of worker hornets and queens have been spotted in the region throughout 2020, although scientists had been unable to pin-point the hive’s location until earlier this week. Scientists predict there are likely other colonies still active in the Pacific Northwest. The recently-released Borat sequel has stirred up controversy after it dupes Giuliani into unwittingly appearing in its film by posing as a news crew. The young actress playing Borat teenaged daughter pretends to be a reporter and brings Giuliani to her hotel room for an interview. The former mayor of New York and present-day personal lawyer to the President, gets drunk and flirty. Giuliani untucks his shirt, and appears to touch himself through his trousers. If Sasha Baron Cohen and an unknown Bulgarian actress can pull one over on ol’ Rudy, many wonder what highly-trained foreign operatives could get...

25: Pope Francis names thirteen new cardinals... including the United States’ first Black cardinal, 72-year-old Wilton Gregory. The State Department reports that is has halted diversity and inclusion training programs following an executive order from the president calling such programs “divisive” and “fundamentally racist and sexist”.

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Moji Olaiya

Moji Olaiya biography

Moji Olaiya  was a talented Nigerian actress. Background information Born: February 27, 1975 Died: May 17, 2017 (aged 42) Death place: Canada Famous as: Actress Buried: 7 June 2017, Ikoyi Cemetery, Lagos Nationality: Nigerian Spouse: Yomi Allen Odutola (m. 2017–2017), Bayo Okesola (m. 2007–2017) Movies: Apaadi Children: Adunoluwa Farombi, Maryam Odutola Religion: Muslim

Acting Career The daughter of highlife musician Victor Olaiya, Moji Olaiya began her acting career with Wale Adenuga's production Super Story. She starred in several Nollywood movies of Yoruba and English genres. She was known for her roles in films such as No Pains No Gains, in which she played Ireti, Sade Blade (2005), Nkan adun (2008) and Omo iya meta leyi (2009). She also starred in the Agunbaniro. In 2003 she was nominated for the Reel Award Best Supporting Actress of the Year, and she won the Best New Actress Award. In 2016, Olaiya released a film, Iya Okomi, starring Foluke Daramola and Funsho Adeolu, which was scheduled to premiere in Lagos on July.

Family and Personal life Olaiya married Bayo Okesola in 2007, then separated. She converted to Islam in 2014. Olaiya died on May 17, 2017, from cardiac arrest in Canada, where she had her second child exactly two months prior. She was finally laid to rest on June 7, 2017 according to Islamic rites Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moji_Olaiya Read the full article

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Actress Deborah Oguntoyinbo arrested for stealing identities of over 20 women to commit Yahoo Yahoo

Actress Deborah Oguntoyinbo arrested for stealing identities of over 20 women to commit Yahoo Yahoo

Nigerians are known for many things, some of them positive and others negative. One of the negative things some citizens have portrayed to the world include fraud.

Wothappen.com has come across the report of a 26-year-old Nigerian woman, Deborah Oguntoyinbo, who was arrested in Canada for fraud related offences.

Actress Deborah Oguntoyinbo arrested for stealing identities of over 20 women…

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Nollywood Actress Arrested In Canada For Stealing Identities Of 20 Women (Photo)

Nollywood Actress Arrested In Canada For Stealing Identities Of 20 Women (Photo)

A 26-year-old Nigerian actress, Deborah Oguntoyinbo is currently being investigated In Canada for stealing the identities of over 20 women in the Toronto area over the last two years, according to a report by CBC News.

Described as one of the most prolific identity thieves ever encountered by the York Regional Police, Oguntoyinbo, who said she’s an actress, is also facing more than 50…

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Nigerian Actress Arrested For Stealing Identities Of 20 Women In Canada

Nigerian Actress Arrested For Stealing Identities Of 20 Women In Canada

Deborah Oguntoyinbo, a Nollywood actress has been arrested for stealing the identities of 20 women which she used to commit a large scale fraud in Canada.

According to reports, the 26-year-old actress is facing more than 50 fraud-related charges in Toronto as well as nearby York, Peel, and Halton regions.

She was arrested after she tried fleeing a luxury condominium complex in Markham (north of…

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Nollywood Actress Arrested In Canada For Stealing Identities Of 20 Women (Photo)

Nollywood Actress Arrested In Canada For Stealing Identities Of 20 Women (Photo)

Deborah Oguntoyinbo

A 26-year-old Nigerian actress, Deborah Oguntoyinbo is currently being investigated In Canada for stealing the identities of over 20 women in the Toronto area over the last two years, according to a report by CBC News.

Described as one of the most prolific identity thieves ever encountered by the York Regional Police, Oguntoyinbo, who said she’s an actress, is also facing more…

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Nigerian Actress, Oguntoyinbo Arrested For Stealing Identities Of Over 20 Women In Canada

Nigerian Actress, Oguntoyinbo Arrested For Stealing Identities Of Over 20 Women In Canada

Police investigating theft of identities of at least 20 Toronto-area women in the past 2 years alone

Police say she is one of the most prolific identity thieves they’ve recently encountered.

They say 26-year-old Deborah Oguntoyinbo, of Toronto, has left a trail of shattered lives and destroyed credit profiles.

A CBC News investigation has uncovered details about Oguntoyinbo, who is currently…

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10 Must Watch Nollywood Movies

Nigeria is Africa’s movie powerhouse!

Nollywood, Nigeria’s equivalent of Hollywood continue to churn out films of international repute.1

Long gone are the times when Africa was dependent on films from the West to fill its whetting appetite for theater and entertainment. Africa got talents!

Nollywood is the place where this is aptly demonstrated.

We put together this list of our favorite Nollywood movies of all time to get your adventure into African cinema started properly.

10. Domitilla

Theme

It’s about a young girls spiral into moral decadence and the subsequent quest for survival. Some of the root causes include need, greed, and peer pressure.

Scriptwriters

Zeb Ejiro

Ken Oghenejabor

Directors

Zeb Ejiro

Lead actor(s)

Anne Njemanze

Release date

1996

9. Half of Yellow Sun

This is a movie inspired by Nigeria’s Biafra civil war.

Theme

Two sisters grow apart due to their personal differences, but when civil war breaks out, their shared political cause overrides their initial differences. They unite to form a newly independent republic.

Scriptwriter

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Directors

Biyi Bandele

Lead actors

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Thandie Newton

Anika Noni Rose

Genevieve Nnaji

John Boyenga

Oyenka Onwenu

Release date

2013

Awards

Outstanding Foreign Film – Black Reel Awards 2015

Black Reel Awards 2015 – Image Awards 2015

Best Feature – Oslo Films from the South Festival 2014

8. Aki na Ukwa

This is one of the most popular comedies of the 1990s featuring two naughty boys – Aki, and Ukwa.

Theme

The drama revolves around two naughty boys, Aki (Chinedu Ikedieze) and Ukwa (Osita Iheme). It follows their mischievous actions and reigning chaos at home, village, and school.

Scriptwriter

Kasvid

Directors

Amayo Uzo Phillips

Lead actors

Chinedu Ikedieze

Osita Iheme

Oby Kechere

Amaechi Muonagor

Release date

2003

Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award (Osita Iheme) – Africa Movie Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award (Chinedu Ikedie) – Africa Movie Awards

7. Osuofia in London

Osuofia in London is a comedy film.

Theme

The comedy revolves around a Nigerian villager (Osuofia) who gets the news of his brother’s demise in London. The brother left him a huge estate that he had invested in London.

The villager gets bamboozled by the modern London life and the vast wealth his brother bequeathed him as the sole heir.

Among the traditional inheritance is his brother’s English fiancé (Mara Derwent) who by the village tradition he is required to marry.

However, the brother’s fiancé, ignorant of the Nigerian village tradition develops doubts and thus the drama begins.

Scriptwriters

Kola Munis,

Emeka Obiakonwa

Kingsley Ogoro

Directors

Kingsley Ogoro

Lead actors

Francis Odega

Nkem Owoh (Osuofia)

Cynthia Okere

Mara Derwent

Release date

2003

Awards

Best Sound Track – Africa Movie Awards

6. Sitanda

Sitanda is a story of love, lust, betrayal, abuse of power, fear, taboos, among others.

Theme

Amanze Bimbo leaves his wife Ann, soaked in the rain while he solely and selfishly utilizes the only umbrella; instead of covering his wife.

This symbolizes the gravity of their strained marriage in which Amanze blames his wife for all his misfortunes. He links these misfortunes to her status as a cursed outcast.

Scriptwriter

Fidel Akpom

Directors

Izu Ojukwu

Lead actors

Bimbo Manuel

Stephanie Okerere

Ali Nuhu

Iretiola Doyle

Justus Esiri

Release date

2007

Nominations

9 nominations

5 African Movie Awards (2007):

Best Original Screenplay

Best Nigerian Film

Best Director

Best Picture

5. Living in Bondage

This is a pioneer film that opened Nollywood curtains to the world. It is a thriller movie based on traditional Nigerian culture.

Theme

A man (Kenneth Okwonko) killed his wife as a ritual sacrifices in hopes of obtaining riches. However, he becomes haunted by the wife’s spirit till he turns mad.

Scriptwriter

Kenneth Nnebue

Okechukwu Ogunjiofor

Directors

Chris Obi Rapu

Lead actors

Kenneth Okwonko

Nnnenna Nwabueze

Okechukwu Ogunjiofor

Francis Agu

Release date

1992 (Part I)

1993 (Part II)

4. Ije

Blood is thicker than water. Even when you siblings commit a heinous crime, you still wish the best of them – freedom.

Theme

Chioma (Genevieve Nnaji) travels to the United States determined to do everything to stop her sister (Omotola Jalade Ekiende) from being arrested for murdering her own husband and two other men.

All that she demands is the truth in order to carry out her mission.

Scriptwriters

Chineze Anyaene

Samuel Tilsen

Directors

Chris Attoh

Lead actors

Genevieve Nnaji

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Odalys García

Jeff Swarthout

Clem Ohameze

Ulrich Que

Jon Woodward

Release date

2010

Awards

The Golden Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival,

The Award of Excellence at the Canada International Film Festival,

The Melvin van Peebles Award at the San Francisco Black Festival

The Silver Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival

The Festival Prize for Best International Student at Swansea Bay Film Festival

3. The Most Wanted

It is a movie in one of those rare occasions when the hunter and the hunted fall in love with each other.

Theme

A group of gangster girls masquerades as men in order to carry out a robbery.

Police are on a mission to hunt down this notorious gang that they believe to be men. However, over time, one of the female gangsters befriends a policeman.

Unknowingly, the policeman falls in love with the female outlaw, only to discover much later that she is a member of the notorious criminal gang.

Scriptwriter

Dozie Eriobu

Directors

Tunji Bamishigbin

Chineze Anyaene

Lead actors

Regina Askia

Ayo Adesanye

Ibinabo Fiberisima

Genevieve Nnaji

Liz Benson

Antar Laniyan

Release date

1996

2. A Trip to Jamaica

A culture shock comedy movie.

Theme

The theme revolves around newly married couple on a trip to visit their relatives abroad. The secrets they uncover from their hosts lead to their eventual breakup.

Scriptwriter / Producer

AY Makun

Directors

Robert Peters

Lead actors

Funke Akindele

Nse Ikpe Etim

Chris Attoh

Release date

2016

Awards

Nigeria Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nigeria Entertainment Award for Best Actress

1. The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party is a Nigerian comedy-drama.  The Wedding Party has two parts – Part I and Part II. Currently, it is the highest grossing Nigerian film of all time.

Theme

The comedy revolves around a drama characteristic of high-class weddings in Nigeria. This includes, among others: unwilling parents, unruly guests, and fidelity suspicions.

Script writer

Don Omope

Zulu Oyibo

Ijeoma Agukoronye

Directors

Kemi Adetiba (Part I)

Ninyi Akinmolayan (Part II)

Lead actors

Adesua Etomi as Dunni Coker (The Bride)

Banky Wellington as Dozie Onwuka (The Groom)

Richard Mofe Damijo as Chief Felix Onwuka (Father of the Groom)

Sola Sobowale as Mrs. Tinuade Coker (Mother of the Bride)

Iretiola Doyle as Lady Obianuju Onwuka (Mother of the Groom)

Alibaba Akporobome as Engineer Bamidele Coker (Father of the Bride)

Enyinna Nwigwe as Nonso Onwuka (The Groom’s Brother)

Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama as Yemisi Disu (Maid of Honour)

Release date

2016 (Part I)

2017 (Part II)

Awards

Best International Film – National Film Awards UK

Get your snacks ready!

Nollywood has come of age.

From a backstreet start to the mainstream film industry, Nollywood continues to make great strides.

It has become one of the top earners of Nigeria’s economy, which has provided employment to thousands of young talents. Nollywood continues to scoop most of the Africa Movie Academy Awards since its inception – a great testament to its potential.2

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Actress Moji Olaiya's remains to arrive Nigeria on 6th of June, see burial details

Actress Moji Olaiya’s remains to arrive Nigeria on 6th of June, see burial details

As Nigerians are still waiting for the news of the arrival of the remains of late Moji Olaiya who died of Cardiac arrest in Canada few weeks ago, the publicity secretary, Yomi Fabiyi has made it known that the remains will finally arrive Nigeria on Tuesday 6th June, 2017 .

He added that the memorial service and artiste night will follow immediately on that same day at Blueroof ,LTV 8, Lateef…